Hi JD, On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:52 AM, JD <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using amarok-2.6.0-3.fc16.i686 > and pulseaudio-0.9.23-1.fc16.i686 > and kernel-3.6.2-1.fc16.i686 > > While playing tracks from a disk directory, Amarok freezes > and audio stops. > > So, I opened a terminal to see why the system was not responding. > Ran top. > Saw that Pulseaudio was eating 90% of cpu. > This never happens with any other media player such as vlc, ffplay, > mplayer, xmms, smplayer2, ... and many others. > > So, I killed amarok, and the system returned to normal. > > This happened twice in a row, so I gave up retrying.
I never heard about that one TBH. Try using the phonon-backend-vlc instead of the gstreamer one and see if that still happens. Since Amarok doesn't use Pulseaudio directly but through Phonon I subscribe the Phonon developers to this. Regards, Myriam -- Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
